{"id":2118,"date":"2014-05-04T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/o2fitness.net\/o2\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2014-05-04T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T00:46:00","slug":"joberg-south-african-900k-nine-day-mountain-bike-stage-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/joberg-south-african-900k-nine-day-mountain-bike-stage-race\/","title":{"rendered":"JoBerg South African, nine day, 900K mountain bike stage race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/image-11-768x1024.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2254\" src=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/image-11-768x1024-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image-11-768x1024\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/image-11-768x1024-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/image-11-768x1024-528x705.jpeg 528w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/image-11-768x1024-450x600.jpeg 450w, http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/image-11-768x1024.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Day 2-3 JoBerg2c &#8211; well the last 48hours have been eventful. Day 2 was our first day of true racing. High paced start at -2 celsius made for cold hands and feet. \u00a0By7:30\u00a0it warmed enough to strip layers and settle in for more farm singletrack and backcountry roads. 93km went fast and we were back to Reitz camp by\u00a0noon.<\/p>\n<p>Felt a bit queezy on the last 10k, little did I know what was in store. A night of stomach cramps and GI issues!! Got a bag of fluids and good cramp drugs, but I knew I was out of day 3. \u00a0Me and fifty others got sick from bad water. It&#8217;s Africa!<\/p>\n<p>Got a ride to camp at Sterkfontaine dam, and skipped a hard day of 123km<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we descend off the escarpment and hopefully to warmer temps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2-3 JoBerg2c &#8211; well the last 48hours have been eventful. Day 2 was our first day of true racing. High paced start at -2 celsius made for cold hands and feet. \u00a0By7:30\u00a0it warmed enough to strip layers and settle in for more farm singletrack and backcountry roads. 93km went fast and we were back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes-blog","tag-andy-buckley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}